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Casualties above. Preview: Fighting American | The Comics Journal We are pleased to present an exclusive preview of Titan's new edition of Fighting American (out today) by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, which includes a new introduction by Joe Simon and previously unpublished art. 'Locke' sets to be struck The sets of the proposed Fox series "Locke & Key"[...]

This is the back cover of all Marvel books this week, including Fear Itself #3 While the Fear Itself: The Deep only helps remind Marvel customers of the price point deal they may be missing with all the competitor's comics. But don't worry Marvel! DC has you covered with Flashpoint: Abin Sur, Green Lantern, reminding you that[...]

Sounds metal. FLASHPOINT THE WORLD OF FLASHPOINT #1 (OF 3) This map is cooler than anything we could say. (click for larger image) AMAZON-ATLANTEAN WARZONE?! Look at what Aquaman did to Western Europe, and northern Africa! Did Wonder Woman castrate all the men in[...]

 The USS Intrepid has been part of the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in NYC since 1982. Marvel.com has details and pictures from the event: This past Friday, as part of Fleet Week, the USO Girls from "Captain America: The First Avenger" gave a special performance for the sailors aboard the USS Intrepid in New York! The sailors received a[...]

In day 2 of the X-Men: First Class skywriting campaign, the logos spread from LA to other parts of California. You have to wonder if they'll start

In reality, characters such as Batman, Superman, Spider-Man and the Hulk were worth far more in terms of what Hollywood could do for and with them, whereas characters such as Tin Tin, Asterix, Lucky Luke, Jeremiah and any popular manga sold vast amounts of comics and albums (as they are[...]

 The other side, usually Marvel, would proudly proclaim "Still Only X Cents!". And of course, upon seeing that burst,  every fan's heart sank, because they knew that line wouldn't hold for very long  How long will the lines hold this time around? Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today Ten Thoughts About Doctor Who: The Almost People "One Day We Will Get[...]

Time for a slightly delayed numbercrunching for Marvel's August-shipping comic books. Two things of note Marvel have seemed to decide that their $2.99 books will be 20 pages long now, just like DC Exepct they aren't saying so, and refuse to say what any of their books will actually be in terms of story length And[...]

Junk Food have a bunch of retro-styled superhero T-shirts, whether that being retro from the sixties or the ninetiies. Pre-faded, oddly juxtaposed images

In the small town of Los Molinos in Chico, California, the position of mayor is a purely honourable one. And rather than being voted for, it is given to

Bleeding Cool has already run pieces on the IDW Godzilla and Avatar/Boundless War Goddess mass retailer variant covers, but now Marvel has entered the fray with Amazing Spider-Man #666 If a retailer orders 150% of their usual Amazing Spider-Man numbers, and they can order 500 or more additional covers with their choice of personalised cover[...]

FF continues its journey into the creation of a superhero comic book tesseract, infinitely complex and folded in on itself. We have Reed Richards teaming

Two comics out today, both seem to be telling stories already told. Reading Uncanny X-Men #537, the silent, intangible Kitty Pryde being pursued across

Hachette are launching a new range of Marvel hardcover collections of classic and modern stories for the British newsstand, as a partwork collection, in much the same way that Eaglemoss does with the Marvel and DC lead figurines. Out now is the Coming Home story by Joe Michael Straczynski and John Romita Jr, for an introductory[...]

The Sobczek sibs have always been brutally competitive, but now that Owen's blood has started BUBBLING with ancient tentacled abominations, their rivalry's about to enter a vast new dimension of cosmic terror… MarvelDump: Tomorrow sees a new Fear Itself: The Worthy free Marvel digital comic to accompany their crossover, by Greg Pak and[...]

Tick, tick, tick, currently at $142.50 - surely we can do better than that. It is after all a Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing... and it is the

Bleeding Cool was the first to tell you that G Willow Wilson and David Lopez were reviving the CrossGen title (and trademark) Mystic for Marvel Comics, after Disney had previously bought the publisher after it went bankrupt. The first issue is published in August, but David Lopez seems keen to show you his working out[...]

1985 by Mark Millar and Tommy Lee Edwards from 2008 on the right, and the Juggernaut statue from Bowen Designs from 2005... In Swipe File we present two

More and more Silver Age books have been pulling unexpected six figure sums of late. But this copy of Amazing Fantasy, featuring the first appearance of

After leading Marvel for three months, DC Comics took a tumble and the Big Two ended up tied for April Marvel saw a modest bump, which is lovely, but both publishers are in the single digits for the first time this year. DC COMICS DC had a rollercoaster of a month, reaching impressive highs and hitting startling[...]

pitch or a synopsis, I'm told by the kind of person who should know that Bryan Hitch's project will written by British broadcaster and comedian, Jonathan Ross. Ross has already co-created the comic book Turf for Image with Tommy Lee Edwards for Image, and the pair have a superhero project to follow that, Golden Age. Bryan Hitch[...]

 The 1961 comic book by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee marked the beginning of the Marvel Universe and is considered one of the most important comics ever published. This is the highest all-cash sale of a Fantastic Four #1   Another copy, the single census-topping and best-known CGC 9.6 copy, changed hands in a cash/trade deal[...]

Last week I pointed out how Kieron Gillen in Journey Into Mystery was able to summarise the entire issue of Fear Itself, poetically, into a couple of

What is it with American writers destroying Europe these days? Last week in Flashpoint #1, we saw that hundreds of millions of Europeans had been plunged into the sea after Atlantis attacked the continent, and all thirty-two million Britain's men had been genocidally massacred by Wonder Woman's new empire. And this week, in Invincible Iron Man[...]

But she's been popping up all over the place of late, including a fair few Daily Shows, as their senior female correspondent. But her newsest sighting? In the Marvel Comics office, visiting the editors and posing with the Stormbringer hammer... One week it's the Pipettes, the next it's Kristen Schaal, it's good to be at Marvel it[...]

One is a comic book turned into a film against the writer's wishes. The other is a comic book about to be turned into a film with the writer's eager participation. Anyway, here's a scene from Watchmen #6 from 1985 by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons from DC Comics, and from Incognito: Bad Influences #5 from 2011[...]

Instead of just being two Americans in suits talking at me as a retailer, I suddenly found myself rubbing shoulders with the vice-presidents of sales and marketing for Marvel and DC I went out to dinner with Steve Geppi of Diamond, I ingratiated myself within the inner circle of the business[...]

Okay, this gets metatextual. Nathan Fillion plays the celebrity author Richard Castle in Castle on ABC, owned by Disney. Now Brian Michael Bendis and Kelly Sue DeConnick are to write a graphic novel, Castle: Richard Castle's Deadly Storm based on the non-existent work within that TV show, the Derrick Storm mystery novels, drawn by Lan Medina, for[...]

'Nuff said, I think?

Automobile brand Acura has been using the fictional Marvel espionage organisation SHIELD to promote its current range of cars, with the Thor movie Recruitment drives at comic conventions SHIELD cars circling Manhattan And mysterious looking press kits built into briefcases One of which was thrown out by car magazine Automobile into a recycling bin. And the prescence[...]